"Wild Mountain Thyme" anyone? Here's a preview

[bellinisurge]

Tune in to joe Duffy today , I just heard he might be talking about this , I can't wait for the outrage

I’ve watched the trailer like 3 times now and still have no idea what’s going on.

I've lived in Ireland for many years, my mum never visited but thought we all went around on a horse and trap like John Wayne in The Quiet Man!

Ha I love Foil Arms and Hog.

I genuinely thought the Wild Mountain Thyme preview was an SNL sketch when I first saw it yesterday. Not just the accents but the whole thing just looks like it was thrown together in a brainstorm of people who had never actually been to Ireland but had read Angela’s Ashes, liked Father Ted and enjoyed St Patrick’s Day every year. It’s bizarre.

Is it due to be released over St Patrick’s Day weekend? Who funded? Why? Why did those actors all agree to be in it? Why didn’t they use proper Irish actors? So many questions!

What a mess. Also I initially thought it was sent decades ago but they mention IVF, such a strange styling choice!

That's never 2005?

No it's not?

Idk what you lot were doing down south but it was all about wkd blue and techno at the young farmer's discos up here in 2005

@OverThinkingUnderDoing , that's the horror. Jamie Dornan is a proper Irish actor.
Well, he's a good looking Irish actor, anyway.

Here's the link to The Irish Times Review - enjoy!

www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/wild-mountain-thyme-trailer-what-in-the-name-of-holy-bejaysus-is-this-cowpat-1.4405893

And Fintan O'Toole's review of the original play Outside Mullingar is a thing of beauty, after watching it he " tried to convince myself that I was an ice-cube so I could melt into the ground in embarrassment".

www.irishtimes.com/culture/outside-mullingar-and-beyond-the-edge-of-awfulness-1.1700204

Its better than the irish murder she wrote for comedy value

Oh god I really hope somebody says 'begorrah'

Its utterly horrendous its basically caucasian black face, it's clichéd offensive drivel.

The accents are the least of it.

How did the two of them get caught up in such guff

Greenface? Shamrock face? Guinness face? (I bet there's guinness in it)

I was ranting about 'irish american' patronising shit on a thread the other day and feel nobody really got my point. THIS was my point.

What, no Twisted Doodles yet?

Why is she wearing a shawl and white dress outside and has muck on her face 😂

It could actually have been a good movie if they had dressed and spoke normally. Classic rom com premise beautiful setting and beautiful actors!!

Oh yes. The Irish murder she wrote episodes are priceless!

Jon Hamm in it?!

Wait, what? Wild Mountain Thyme is Irish now? It's the song my very, very, very Scottish DH sings when de demon dhrink is upon him. Oh fuck, I'm at the auld shit brogue now an' all, begorrah.

OMG Emily Blunt is a brilliant actress but she’s really hamming it in this!

OMG. OMG.

1. Is that one of the Deadringers team doing a Terry Wogan voiceover?
2. The culture shock of what appears to be Tom Jones attempting a shit Oirish accent.
3. Jon Hamm is doing Don Draper in a field.
4. Emily Blunt is doing Maureen O'Hara in a Land Rover like the last 80 years have not happened.

I love that it's set in 1900 and also 2020

Oh my god. It’s hilariously bad. Emily Blunt looks like she’s been dressed in a mash-up of Cos and the now long closed Taaffe’s woollen shop in Galway. No self respecting young Irish woman would’ve been caught dead in trousers too short for her legs in 2005 (don’t know about now, I’m happily on the March towards crone-dom)

I usually love a cheesy romantic drama but this may be a bridge too far even for me. JM Synge called dudes, he wants his dialogue back.

Unbelievably, and hilariously, awful. Scarleh for all involved